1 posted on
08/09/2006 7:09:03 PM PDT by
SmithL
To: SmithL
To: SmithL
A Frenchman would have let them just take the camera and would have also handed over film. The American would give chase and try to kick their asses and get it back.
3 posted on
08/09/2006 7:11:03 PM PDT by
AmericanInTokyo
(A few clever bones tossed on gay unions, flag burning & Iraq still don't absolve GWB over BORDERS)
To: SmithL
Like we don't mug european tourists who stray off the French Quarter in New Orleans....
4 posted on
08/09/2006 7:11:20 PM PDT by
Dog Gone
To: SmithL
Guess hubby and I won't be going to Napoli any time soon. Too bad. Marvellous food.
5 posted on
08/09/2006 7:11:31 PM PDT by
WarEagle
(Karl Rove did it....)
To: SmithL
6 posted on
08/09/2006 7:13:55 PM PDT by
JamminJAY
(This space for rent)
To: SmithL
taking pictures of a church Now why can't this happen to an ACLU photographer here in the USA.
7 posted on
08/09/2006 7:15:03 PM PDT by
badpacifist
(Democrats......deers caught in the headlights of terrorism.)
To: SmithL
An American tourist was beaten by an angry mob in the streets of Naples after he chased down two men who had just stolen his camera, Not smart. Brave but not smart.
Never try to chase someone on their home territory. They have allies, you don't. People know them, they don't know you. And any group will close ranks around one of their own against an outsider even if the outsider is in the right. It is just human nature.
8 posted on
08/09/2006 7:17:48 PM PDT by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty)
To: SmithL
I haven't been to Naples since 1981 when I was in the Navy. At the time I loved the place. As a 20 year old single kid it was a great liberty port, one of my favorites, but we were warned of certain neighborhood to stay clear of and we did. Commies, gangs, hoodlums, and people that just hated anyone not Italian were in those forbidden streets.
To: SmithL
Naples is where the world gets an enema.
16 posted on
08/09/2006 8:20:19 PM PDT by
usmcobra
(Hey Stand, who's standing in Lee Circle?)
To: SmithL; Dog Gone
On a marginally related note, I use a simple trick when going into areas (e.g. foreign ports) where I can't pack heat.
I simply carry two wallets.
One wallet is real. The other wallet is a decoy, packed with a few $1 bills and an expired credit card.
No mugger will ever ask for 2 wallets. So since you can't always shoot the SOB's, be sure to at least out-think them.
18 posted on
08/09/2006 8:49:03 PM PDT by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: SmithL
I would guess that the locals thought the victim was the attacker. This happens a lot where the public are willing to intervene in a crime. Even the police sometimes assume the wrong person is the perp.
As far as Naples goes, however, the locals have been known to try and brutally feed you to death. One couple I knew there had his-and-hers kitchens. I had to take a 3-day fast afterwards just to get hungry again.
Oh yes, and you cannot escape overland, because every tiny town is especially proud of some dish and some wine and it will take you 10 days to get 20 miles@about 2 pounds a mile. You'll never make it to the Rome airport alive.
To: SmithL
Neapolitan blackshirt islamofascists, perhaps?
22 posted on
08/09/2006 9:00:12 PM PDT by
dodger
To: SmithL
To: SmithL
Probably the pair turned up an alley off of Via Roma. Not a smart thing for the photographer to follow them there.
24 posted on
08/09/2006 9:27:10 PM PDT by
NY Attitude
(You are responsible for your safety until the arrival of Law Enforcement Officers!)
To: SmithL
Stupid American in a foreign country.
"Hay, buddy, here, would you take a picture of me and my wife? Yes, that ok, that's far enough. Hay, come back here, that's my camera. Where are you going?"
26 posted on
08/09/2006 11:47:12 PM PDT by
SR 50
(Larry)
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